Miss America Lunch Box
Miss America Lunch Box
- Description (Brief)
- This metal lunch box was manufactured by Aladdin Industries in 1972. The lunch box features imagery based on the annually televised Miss America Pageant. Originally a beauty pageant when it began in 1921, the Miss America Pageant became a “scholarship pageant” over the years, offering its first scholastic financial aid in 1945. The Miss America Pageant is now the world’s largest provider of scholarships for young women, making $45 million dollars available in scholarships on a yearly basis.
- Date made
- 1972
- collected for nmah
- Smithsonian Institution
- maker
- Aladdin
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 7 1/2 in x 8 in x 4 in; 19.05 cm x 20.32 cm x 10.16 cm
- ID Number
- 1988.3160.63
- nonaccession number
- 1988.3160
- catalog number
- 1988.3160.63
- subject
- Television
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
- Popular Entertainment
- Lunch Boxes
- Family & Social Life
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
